Live service is an important factor to why Sony is aquiring Bungie
gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-playsta...Posted Feb 1, 2022, 1:56 AM UTC
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If they do another grind like Destiny I’m not interested.
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Do you people really think Sony was always going to main line singleplayer games with how the industry is now and all the shit MS is doing? I'm seeing people freaking out like this was some betrayal by Sony lol wtf. How naive do you have to be.
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What I’ve gather from this acquisition is that
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The play here most likely is that almost all of Bungie’s revenue will go to Sony and possibly about 10% will go to Bungie executives. Most likely because this was agreed upon during the acquisition. Thus they will look to continue the same operation to maximize revenues and profits. Sony wants non Playstation consistent gaming revenue each quarter as a way to diversify. We don’t know how much Destiny make but we do know GTA Online makes 1 billion per year according to Take Two and Destiny is about as popular as GTA Online.
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Bungie in turn will be able to use Sony’s big picture and entertainment division to take Destiny to next level and make the IP even bigger into mainstream.
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Am i the only one not excited? I wanted more ps5 games or even just PS exclusives
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I mean Bungie's games were coming either ways, they are huge about creative control. The money boost should help though, they've had issues being a AAA independant developer. So hopefully better games and even just a better Destiny 2. It may help PS other studios down the line with their development though, so that could be exciting.
I mainly wanted to post this since I think people get hung on the reasons why it's being bought. It's a growing sign that Sony wants a bite of the live-service market and even he says that they have an aggressive roadmap for it. I still expect we'll see great single player games, just the resources may be more split between what kind of games are made.
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You make a lot of sense here, cause it seems like Bungie with destiny are like the only live service game that is independent.
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Yeah, their experience and tech is one of the bigger factors of this deal. Sony/PS on the otherhand, has very little. This let's them get a little boost and hopefully avoid some of the mistakes that a lot of beginner's do in this space. We've seen a lot of games that took a year or two to actually get their feet on the ground and running.
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Motherfuck live service games
That's all.
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Well I don’t like the sound of THAT.
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I mean if you exclusively play single player games, it can definitely raise some concerns. Sony will always be doing high executed single player games though. It's their big console seller point. Buy Playstation and play the highest rated/acclaimed narrative single player games exclusively here.
Still, there is too much money in live-service for them to ignore forever, especially once they've gotten you into the ecosystem with SP exclusives.
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Can’t wait to see battle passes implemented into every “exclusive” game moving forward
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So because they wanted a popular live service game you think that means all future games will be live service? Are you trolling
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if Sony acquired them for their strength in that department (which they did) then yes I expect them to push live service shit heavily
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They bought them to do it with this game and other Bungie games... Has nothing to do with their other studios or IPs
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I figured as much. They’ll put it on Spartacus along with Factions to entice players to sign up. Might be wrong, but I could see it happening